The rapper accused of being the shooter at a T.I Concert in New York last month has spoken out for the first time since the incident.
30-year-old Troy Ave was last month arrested and detained after New York police alleged that he was responsible for the shooting which left one person dead and several others injured.
But the rapper is determined to have his side of the story told publicly and this week released a new mixtape, entitled #FreeTroyAve, to set the record straight.
In a freestyle, the rapper alleges that someone was trying to assassinate him when he shot in self-defence.
"I took the gun from him and turned the tables round like a G," he raps, before declaring: "I'm innocent. Unless you're charging me with being real from the very beginning."
In the final track on the mixtape, Troy says that everyone knows he is innocent and as soon as he gets bail, "the world will know the truth."
He also reveals that the death of his bodyguard Ronald "Edgar" McPhatter, killed in the shooting, has affected him deeply.
"Couldn't make your funeral but I heard that you was fleek... You're in a better place, but I'm sad and enraged," he raps down what sounds like a jail telephone line.
A compilation of the rapper's statements on the incident have been compiled into a video which has since surfaced online.
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